Self Psychology And The Humanities

Author : Heinz Kohut
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393335552
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Psychology and the Humanities written by Heinz Kohut and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss courage, leadership, the roles of the group and the individual, narcissism, psychological aspects of history, ethics, civilization, and culture.

Author : John Hanwell Riker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040019277
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kohut's Self Psychology for a Fractured World written by John Hanwell Riker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from Kohut's conceptualisation of self, Riker sets out how contemporary America's formulation of persons as autonomous, self-sufficient individuals is deeply injurious to the development of a vitalizing self-structure—a condition which lies behind much of the mental illness and social malaise of today's world. By carefully attending to Kohut's texts, Riker explains the structural, functional, and dynamic dimensions of Kohut's concept of the self. He creatively extends this concept to show how the self can be conceived of as an erotic striving for connectedness, beauty, and harmony, separate from the ego. Riker uses this distinction to reveal how social practices of contemporary American society foster skills and traits to advance the aims of the ego for power and control, but tend to suppress the needs of the self to authentically express its ideals and connect with others. The book explores the impact that this view can have on clinical practice, and concludes by imaginatively constructing an ideal self-psychological society, using Plato's Republic as a touchstone. Informed by self psychology and philosophy, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and philosophers, seeking to revisit and revise constructions of both self and humanity.

Author : Irene N. H. Harwood
Publisher : Readers Digest
ISBN 13 : 9781853025976
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Experiences in Group written by Irene N. H. Harwood and published by Readers Digest. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen papers from group therapists in the US and Europe apply the principles of self psychology and intersubjectivity theory to groups. Several authors note the influence of Heinz Kohut, the late founder of self psychology, discussing his fears regarding certain kinds of clinical groups, and his concepts of twinship and of the dynamics of the group self. Other topics include the integration of self- psychology into European groups and their analytic tradition, applications of infant research, and the benefits of adding group therapy to individual. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Peter A. Lessem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Psychology written by Peter A. Lessem and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, introductory text makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for both students and clinicians. Beginning with an overview of the development of Kohut's ideas, particularly those on narcissism and narcissistic development, the author lucidly explains self object concept and why it is at the core of the self psychological vision of human experience. The book also covers how self psychology conceives of psychological growth, therapeutic action, and psychopathology and offers valuable guidance for the clinician who puts self psychological treatment into practice.

Author : Arnold I. Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134908466
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progress in Self Psychology, V. 18 written by Arnold I. Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Self Psychology, the last volume of the Progress in Self Psychology series under the editorship of Arnold Goldberg, charts the path of self psychology into the postmodern era of psychoanalysis. It begins with Goldberg's thoughtful consideration of the several tributaries of self-psychological thought in the decades after Kohut and continues with Mark Gehrie's elaboration of "reflective realism" as a self-psychological way out of epistemological quagmires about the "essential reality" of the analytic endeavor. Clinical contributions offer contemporary perspectives on clinical themes that engaged Kohut in the 1970s: a study of the effect of "moments of meeting" on systems of pathological accomodation; a reappraisal of empathy as a "bi-directional negation"; and an assessment of the diverse clinical phenomena that justify a prolonged "understanding only" phase of treatment. The theory section of Volume 18 comparably charts the movement of self psychology toward a postmodern sensibility. Contributors reappraise intersubjectivity theory as a contextualist treatment approach consistent with dynamic systems theory; return to Kohut's concept of selfobject relationships, with special attention to the separate subjective and intersubjective components of selfobject experiences; and develop one of Kohut's early ideas into a theory of "forward edge" transferences that strengthen normal self-development. In all, Volume 18 is a richly insightful progress report on the current status of self psychology and a fitting capstone to Arnold Goldberg's distinguished tenure as editor of the Progress in Self Psychology series.

Author : Mark Leffert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960417
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self written by Mark Leffert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws psychoanalysis out of unsubstantiated, hermeneutic speculation and into the science and philosophy of the Self. Mark Leffert offers a survey of where we as human beings come from, going back into prehistory and our development as individuals. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self is written to provide psychoanalysts with interdisciplinary information drawn from fields that they may have had little access to. Leffert undertakes a novel integration of topics not frequently discussed together, resulting in a radical critique of the theorization of psychoanalysis. The book begins by setting the story with a short analysis of the history of psychoanalysis. A new science has been founded on the recognition of the impossibility of separating evolution from development; it is called Evo-Devo. Applied to the human condition, it integrates development with palaeoanthropology and forms the basis for exploring such topics as the neurophilosophy of consciousness, the birth of the Self, and its neurodevelopment. It includes epigenetics in the conversation. Leffert then takes a radical turn, integrating the biological Evo-Devo of the Self with the study of its Existence that is, Existentialism and Phenomenology. The integration of these two threads, Evo-Devo and Existentialism offers a powerful and unique tool for exploring the Self. The author offers an innovative way of understanding an individual that pulls together their biology, their development, and the way they choose to exist in the world. It steps outside of the traditional ways of clinically understanding an individual not by abandoning them but rather by powerfully supplementing them. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self offers a novel, interdisciplinary braiding of disparate strands of knowledge that will be of interest to psychoanalysts as well as those in the disciplines of neuroscience, existentialism and phenomenology, and anthropology.

Author : Jung Eun Jang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349950416
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience and Self-Psychology written by Jung Eun Jang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness and helplessness that Korean people experienced under Japanese occupation as what Kohut calls self-fragmentation of the Korean group self and explaining its therapeutic functions which facilitate potential for the narcissistic nourishment of the fragmented group self leading to renewed self-esteem, transformation, and empowerment of the Korean people. Korean people in the early 1900s experienced abuses and oppression by corrupt officials and exploitation by Japanese government. Through religious experiences which emphasized the individual repentance, the experience of God through the spirit, emphasis on prayer, and eschatological faith, the Korean Revival Movement in 1907 enabled its followers to experience mirroring and idealizing selfobjects which function as a role of transforming the lower shape of narcissism into the higher one.

Author : Douglas Detrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317771648
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Psychology written by Douglas Detrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis. Separate sections analyze self psychology alongside Freud and the first generation of psychoanalytic dissidents; British object relations theorists; and contemporary theorists like Kernberg, Mahler, Lacan, and Masterson.

Author : Paul E. Stepansky
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881631623
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kohut's Legacy written by Paul E. Stepansky and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the classic self psychology compilations, Kohut's Legacy, first published in 1984, contains influential papers that broadened the purview of self psychology in the aftermath of Kohut's death. Contributions include three essays by Michael Basch on the selfobject concept, "Notes Toward a Psychology of the Feminine Self" by Joan Lang, and "Shame and the Psychology of the Self" by Andrew Morrison.

Author : Douglas Detrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317771656
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Psychology written by Douglas Detrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of "comparisons and contrasts" explores Heinz Kohut's self psychology in relation to a wide-ranging group of modern thinkers, both inside and outside of analysis. Separate sections analyze self psychology alongside Freud and the first generation of psychoanalytic dissidents; British object relations theorists; and contemporary theorists like Kernberg, Mahler, Lacan, and Masterson.